News about NC10s – Interview IT Director France – 16-02-08

[20Syl]

Hi guys,

I found an interview of the IT Division director for Samsung France, Agnès Van de Walle, and there is some interesting information about NC10. Let me try to summarize :

NC10 Success : (Certainly just in France…, i don’t know)
– 5 % of the netbook market in Q4 2008
– Despite of all “netbook”s, demand stay important.
– 40 000 units in January (hope 100 000 for the Q1 2009)

NC10 Strategy :
– NC10 is used as a “trojan” in the market : you buy a NC10 from samsung, and will certainly buy other products (LCD, cell phone…)
– New NC10s will come out to fit to different kind of customers. they found 5 kind of customers or potentialy customers.

New NC10s in 2009 :
– One for newcomers…
– One girly (pink, or hello kitty) (it’s already somewhere ;), but not in France)
– One for Small and medium enterprises and Small office (SMEs & SoHo)
– One “trendy”
– One “musical” with a 2.1 sound system integrated and maybe a partnership with an online music seller
– And maybe another one, for a special event (Valentines’ day, Christmas, Olympics games,.. you see…)

This is not 100% sure, but it could be a reality in 2009.

If you need more information or enlightment, do not hesitate.

Source (in french…) : Here

*** New Link : Liliputing ***

[TCMuffin]

Good find and thank you for the translation 🙂

[20Syl]

You are welcome. 🙂
It’s a good point that Samsung want to keep the NC10 near the customers’ needs.

[Britman]

Thanks for that, some interesting info, still no mention of 3G.

[20Syl]

Actualy, they talk about an NC10 with an integrated 3G+ module (just a white model). It’s provide by SFR, a french mobile network operator.

It’s already available.

Another nmobile network operator will provide it after the 2nd of March (Bouyges Telecom), but this time it’s the black version.
I don’t know it it will be possible to buy it without contract…
Source : http://www.espaceclient2.bouyguestelecom.fr/mes_news/mes_actualites/(nodeID)/17693?IVChan=BSK&xtor=EPR-700155-%5BCFF_E-NEWSLETTERTUR_20090218_INF_C1_R1_1171%5D-20090218-%5B%5D-1146671-20090218122210

[Britman]

Thanks,
I’d rather have a none contract based one.

[20Syl]

As i see on their website, you can have it for 399€ without any engagement. Just with a “prepaid” card system to reload your account.

I don’t know if you can connect on other network.

If i find more information, i will let you know.

[adatay92]

20Syl this post got linked from lilputing

http://www.liliputing.com/2009/02/samsung-working-on-additional-nc10-netbook-versions.html

[20Syl]

Thanks, i will add this link to my first post.

[jez]

Yeah nice one 20Syl! Thanks very much for sharing and it’s great for me to get a link from liliputing article :)!

I actually didn’t notice this thread until I saw that article lol! I try to keep track of everything via RSS but it misses many posts, my RSS reader needs to download more often I think. Or maybe the site needs to update the feed more often? I’ll investigate.

Back on topic – interesting stuff. Nice to see Samsung are keeping the NC10 momentum going.

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